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panen vy rresivent | ofa sorics f tei Te the efith " Lo thorns ieee t ‘ Pr eee ae EY WILLARIEDWARDS | Cumage Tribesd Prem bervice] 44 eashington, Feb. g—Rep. OCarner UD., N. ¥.], chairman of! eve tcuse rules committee, hus- | tet tg the White House one dey la 19%4 to impart information of a ataricg nature to President Roosevelt. = Str. President,” he said breath- levity, “do you know that one of. your gen stenografers is a card carrying member of the Commu- rat party?” . “Tor onty response I got, fo cesar, telling the story years ing of the chin end blinking of the { tueids So far as I know, the Van is still there.” t---. insident started a cool 2. * she Democratic leader pears .ster th>chich resulted two reo Meee ap fron, wecegsry Pree terre Mr. Roosevert Peon nce *' sazed in the campaign to defer: C Crener fer retlection. k Reds is White House Jobe * Teaxe it clear, Communists and’ {P-4 mmpathizers held White Fo +s» y os. In 1941, according te jas ofcial report just two months pst Pearl Harbor, there were "=e emxployes in the executive of- foe ef the President who wee, "less of subversive organiza-, j"> sa under Communist evntpol + > ete were no dismissals, f I+ 167 the case of Hel uhas recta fe ett = She had bean "ts PF cee werk handling the | Pee! Sirs. Eleanor: steel Ln May, 1944, ahe went | 7 i fos *he soviet embassy, * - - + to lag, Prawns = dpe - Joel' t.alg for the Russian: -7eg ude mavazine, the Soviet +°! eo stion Bulletin, Rigid soviet eo 2+ % would permit the hiring oF *-.t a leva) party mem- / #-.2 & Dost tovestigators| t tie Sree Ru ee Perreller ' Vea ee . cthg in the soviet "ts Yoras decided to: nae Chavis vat, the sttte ft iooher vesizosc. 2 - omprtagts e>> 1 Te r . CaoTi@, a Wo te Rouse fade co ocrecive BSSistamt was cram io 2 ls35 by E..rate2 Beate te: giv cred seviet s as an in- Foon or fis aospy fing. He vehe- jments éemed the charge. Shortly | thereafier this story was unfolded before the house committee on ‘can activities: CiSiivermaz er. £10,005 had Nathan zea! a year government om c.2., been under FBI investigation, by his own admission, soon after he entered government employment in 1935. Gets Job Under Wallace Born in Russia, Silvermaster en- tered the United States at San Francisco in 1915 and became a naturalized citizen in 1927, ‘had been an associate of Harry | Bridges, longshore union leader. tnd well known Communists on the west coast. But he had no Jresertlemen administration under texford Guytugwell, later shift. Ing to the farm security adminis- ration under Agriculture Secre- Henry AeVallace. i In 1942 Silvermaster applied for said fa transfer to the board of eco- w r Secretary Stimson wrote Mrs, vac imomie warfare, The FBI reported teter. “was that well known rais- qinat he was a known Communist, ° to want af the Barer: He commission despite the interces- @ mroheble = af ¢he en S PCa BB Va ce apuccimis "police, and should not be given a, Quel viet sat the Write dur.nmg the war years. aAdamic ig given credit for the major shift: in American policy in the Balkans: which resulted in the desertion of, Gen. Mihailcvich’s Chettiike tw: Yuenslavia and indtrsemert. igrttal Tito’s socet é:runated- Protec ef Mrs, Rao-evelt og Joseproissa, prottca cio Miss ‘Roosevelt, former leader of the iCommunist controled _ American Student ‘union, was another who spent many nights under the! White House roof. Lash was draft- ed in 1942 after he had been turned down as unqualified for a navy sion of Mrs. Roosevelt. In 1944 he was rejected as a candidate for officers’ candidate school. On the day he was turned down, ieifically stated that “objectio arising from his [Lash’s] civil ac+. ; tivities ” should not be considered. * Mr. Roosevelt died before Lash . ‘was commissioned in May, 1945. Foosevelt that to deny officer h would be an insult to the memory of her * sainied husband.” The White Helse record of op- post in a war agency where he position to investigation of com- information, Appeals to U. 8. Alds ness Would have access to confidential | munism in the government is un- broken from 1935 to the present ate. Sen. Ferguson {R., Mich.f Silvermaster sought out Currie, |.in August, 1948, reviewed the red the White House aid. He com- plained that the Communist charge against him was “an in- sult and a smear.” He also ap-! aled to another friend, CB Baldwin, of the farm security ad¢ Freer ca eat who last year re ed to tell a senate committee As a result of these appeals, ar Secretary Patterson was in- duced to write a@ letter to the civil service commission which exonerated Silvermaster of all charges against him. He was given j a key war post in which he served until he resigned In March, 16. Siivermaster was named as a Jeader of the Communist cel? in Washington which furnished secret documents to Miss Bentley which were photografed in the basement of his home. When he was called upon to answer this charge, he refused to testify on the ground that he might incrimi- nate himself. Vv— Red Chief Meets F.D.R. The history of Communist in- lengthy and detailed. When Earl Browder was head of the Com- party in the United $¢: fluence in the White Hetse n| ‘20 aromiuned with vite ft 1944. he held secret sen ‘ord, suggesting it called for cur : ing Presidential “ arrogance” the impeachment process. Both Presidents Roosevelt apd Truman, he noted, had refused to permit congress to see files bear- dng on the loyalty of government rhether he wasa Communist. employes. . “There bas long been an in- threasing tendency on the part of whe executive branch to conduct their affairs In secret,” be told the senate. “The Communists got a f hold first In the agriculture partment and then spread to other - . agencies. The secrecy policy was > Il 9 = fcllowed consistently up to Pearl ‘~ Harbor and the war then became the excuse for hiding many things. New Kind of Burocracy t “A political-military hierarchy | was built up, an entirely new bu-| rocracy centering in the White} House, the state department, and. 1G5u ei ee « i/ | ; budget, shifted to the 5 : . . 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